PingRCA detects failures and investigates them — reading the error page, checking your incident history, correlating across your services — and delivers a plain-English root cause before you even open your terminal.
Free tier: 3 monitors, forever free. No credit card. Setup in 30 seconds.
The same investigation a senior SRE runs manually — DNS, SSL, logs, history, patterns — automated in under 30 seconds.
Most monitoring tools hand you a status code and wish you luck. You're the one who has to figure out the rest.
You find out about downtime from a Slack complaint or a user email — not an alert. By the time you know, it's been down for 20 minutes.
Basic monitors hand you a status code. They don't tell you whether it's DNS, SSL, a failed deploy, or a database connection pool. And they have no memory — so you can't tell if it's a pattern.
Root cause investigation — SSH into servers, check DNS records, tail logs, read cryptic error messages — wastes 30–60 minutes you don't have. Your client is waiting.
The investigation takes 20 minutes. PingRCA does it in 30 seconds.
From zero to monitored in under a minute. Nothing to install.
30 seconds to set up
No agents. No config files. No code changes. Paste your URL, name your monitor, and monitoring starts immediately. HTTPS, custom headers, and auth tokens all supported.
DNS, SSL, headers, response body
Every 30 seconds to 5 minutes (depending on your plan), PingRCA checks your URL and records the full context: DNS resolution, SSL certificate validity and expiry, HTTP redirect chain, response headers, status code, and response time.
Root cause + history + next steps, in your alert
Our AI reads the error page, checks your incident history, looks for patterns, and correlates across your services. You get a specific diagnosis — "4th occurrence this month, all Monday nights — likely your scheduled DB backup" — with suggested fixes.
Other monitors tell you WHAT happened. PingRCA tells you WHY — and whether it's happened before.
| Feature | Generic Ping Monitor | PingRCA |
|---|---|---|
| Detects downtime | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shows HTTP status code | ✓ | ✓ |
| DNS probe | ✗ | ✓ |
| SSL check + expiry warning | ✗ | ✓ |
| Redirect chain analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Flap detection (no alert spam) | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI root cause analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Response body interpretation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Incident history & pattern detection | ✗ | ✓ |
| Suggested fix in the alert | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $10–30/mo | Free |
Enterprise observability depth, without the enterprise price or the 3-week onboarding. PingRCA doesn't just watch — it investigates.
Monitor any public endpoint — HTTP/HTTPS URLs, raw TCP ports, and DNS resolution. Know the moment a service, port, or domain stops responding, with full request diagnostics logged for every check.
When a check fails, our AI reads the actual error page, checks SSL state, inspects headers, scans incident history for patterns, and correlates with other monitors. You get a specific narrative — not a rephrased status code — with ranked next steps.
Verify your service is reachable from multiple geographic regions, not just one vantage point. Catch CDN misconfigurations, regional routing failures, and geo-blocked outages that single-region monitors miss entirely.
Get alerted 14 days before your SSL certificate expires — before browsers start showing scary warnings to your users. PingRCA validates the full certificate chain on every check and flags mismatches, self-signed certs, and near-expiry automatically.
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From failure to full investigation — diagnosis, history, and next steps — in your inbox
6 probes
DNS, SSL, redirect chain, headers, status code, response body — read and interpreted every check
~20 min
Avg time a senior SRE spends investigating an incident manually. PingRCA does it instantly.
No feature gates that make the free tier useless. No annual contracts. Upgrade when you outgrow it.
Side projects and personal sites
$0forever
Small teams and growing products
$19/mo
High-traffic apps and SRE teams
$99/mo
All plans include AI root cause analysis. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Pingdom and UptimeRobot detect that you're down. PingRCA investigates why. When we detect a failure, our AI reads the actual error page, checks your incident history for patterns, looks at whether other services failed around the same time, and writes a plain-English diagnosis with ranked next steps. It's the difference between 'your site is down' and 'this is the 3rd time this month your API has failed between 2–3am — likely your scheduled DB backup is overwhelming your connection pool.'
Every failure triggers a full diagnostic sweep: DNS resolution (does the domain resolve? to the right IP?), SSL certificate validation and expiry date, full HTTP redirect chain, response headers, HTTP status code, and a snippet of the response body. Our AI synthesizes all of that into a root cause explanation. It's the same checklist a senior SRE runs manually — done in under 30 seconds.
PingRCA makes standard HTTP requests to your public URLs — the same requests any browser or uptime monitor makes. We don't require server access, credentials, agents, or code changes. Your monitoring data is stored securely and is only accessible to your account. See our privacy policy for full details.
Read our privacy policy →Yes. Growth and Team plans include full REST API access authenticated with an X-API-Key header. You can create and manage monitors, retrieve incident history, and pull the AI diagnosis for any event. Documentation is available in your dashboard after signup.
Flapping is when a service bounces between up and down rapidly — a common symptom of intermittent failures, overloaded servers, or misconfigured health checks. Most monitors fire a separate alert for every state change, flooding your inbox with a dozen notifications at 3am. PingRCA's flap detection tracks the oscillation as a single incident with a flap count and coherent timeline. You get the signal without the noise.
Your existing monitors keep running without interruption. Adding new ones is gracefully blocked — not your data deleted — until you upgrade or remove an existing monitor. Nothing disappears on you.
The next time something breaks, you'll know about it before your users do — and you'll already know why.
3 monitors, forever free. No credit card required.